Family Matters
“Military people
can’t function without their families,” Hamrick said. “If they deploy and
their family is left behind with issues that aren’t resolved, their heads
aren’t going to be where they need to be to get the mission accomplished.
We’re here to take care of the families.” Hamrick’s position
is a relatively new career field, created in 1997, that demonstrates the
Air Force’s support of families. Every base has a family readiness NCO, a
person whose job is to make sure families have everything they need when
a spouse deploys.
